[plug] Agenda VR3

[Simon Scott]

	Hmmm... its hard to explain.... You can always use HWR no matter
what you are doing. If you put the pen to the screen, and then move it, its
a mouse movement. If you 'hit the deck running' so to speak, its meant to be
writing. However, it seems to need to be tweaked so you can at least hold
the pen on the screen for a fraction of a second before moving it and still
have HWR. I reckon it should be an option somewhere, so you can adjust it to
quite a large delay if you use HWR alot and it shits you with this mouse
movement thing. Its annoying cos you go to do a letter and sometimes itll
move the cursor to a different field, or even highlight text which you then
accidentally blow away with your next letter........

	The screen is 'split' into quarters, and basically bottom right is
upper case, top right is lower case, top left is punctuation and bottom left
is numbers.

	If it wasnt for the mouse movement confusion and it glitching
slightly on a few letters I would rate it as more useable than graffitti.
Hopefully theyll fix it soon.

	Supposedly there are 2 or 3 competing HWR programs for the
Agenda.... May the best man win :)


	Ahh, yes, the VR3 has nfsd if you so desire which I might install
soon. It would be hell useful cos you could basically share the entire root
and do as you would (albeit slowly with the serial cable :) with a normal
nfs mount. it also has ftpd, httpd, and ofcourse you can telnet into it and
set your display and use its apps remotely.



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	On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:56:28AM +0800, Simon Scott wrote:
	 
	> It retains the time :) 

	Always useful. ;-)

	> Hand writing recog isnt too bad, not far from graffitti, but it
continues to
	> be a little difficult to use sometimes as it seems to want to
interpret some
	> strokes as mouse movements. Some of the letters/symbols are a
little hard to
	> obtain, but you get used to it. The speed of the HWR is good now,
I wouldnt
	> expect it to be much faster, but supposedly they are still
addressing HWR
	> speed as #1 priority. But overall it appears that I was a little
premature
	> with HWR, and it just takes a little getting used to.

	How does it differentiate at all between handwriting strokes and
"mouse"
	movements?  I assume it is screen and application context?

	> The reason you would want to telnet into the unit is to do
maintenance and
	> also to use rsync to move files between the unit and workstation.
Ive set up
	> some scripts so I can remotely edit a file, it will rsync, edit,
then rsync
	> back. The unit has ash and bash, so obviously I use bash :) There
are
	> already syncing apps appearing between the vr3 and assorted
desktop apps.

	The major problem with using rsync this way seems to be that it
isn't
	"record aware" so naturally this would reduce its efficiency.

	> I dont really see the point of apache on pdas myself, but I
suppose it falls
	> into the realm of 'a cool hack'. Along the same lines as the ftpd
and nfsd
	> on the vr3... a little pointless really.

	The point of the web server on the Palm (not Apache) was, apart from
	being a cool hack, to provide a simple interface for moving
whole/single
	files back and forward between the device.

	 
	> Oh, ive managed to crash the unit twice since Ive had it.
Hopefully the
	> stability will improve as the one device I would expect never to
crash is a
	> PDA.

	Let alone a PDA running Linux! ;-) 

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